Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-12
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS

"A cigar tactory 10 ssatunB UP Nv N
Reed City has only one resident OF the
svlored race.
Portland school pupils set out seventy
five trees on Arbor Day.
The establishment of paper factory
is talked Of at Manchester.
The State teachers meeting will be
held at Lansing July 6, z, and 8.
The Agricultural College boys have
oroanized band of twelve pieces.
Work has been commenced on the new
Free Methodist Church at Petersburg.
Mrs. M. Adele Hazlett, of Hudson, +.
will deliver the memorial day address at
Worthwhile.
Branch County will pay $4,75O for adj
ditional ground upon which to erect Its new
court house.
The Ludington School Board, has re-
elected Charles w. Pickell Superintendent
for another year.
The spring meeting OF the Lansing
District Ministerial Association has been
indefinitely postponed.
Sporting men say there Will DO more
horse racing in Michigan this year than IN
any one of the ten years past.
The examination of A. p. Tucker at
Coldwater. arrested for assault with intent
to commit murder, has been adjourned TO
May 81.
-Chas. Montague, of Caro-, has pur-
II de fnr
Work on the new building will commence
! at once.
: A little boy Of Tecumseb, while play
= ing horse with some companions, ate
I quantity of corn and drank water from an
Q old tin can. He was soon seized with
spasms and died few hours later. lie Is
Q supposed to have been poisoned by cop
g peras, which had been kept in the can.
: : The entries for the breeders stakes in
g the fall races of the Central Michigan Fair,
= to be held at Lansing Sept. 27, %, 20, and
3: 30. close on May 10. The stakes are for
r. 2-year- -olds, 3-year- -olds, and 4-year-oids'
n n and liberal purses are offered by the society
IN for each class. The entries are confined 10
y y ten counties included in the association.
e Mrs. Mary Cothran, of Kalamazoo,
9 died from morphine taken with suicidal in
ID tent. The day before she jumped from
NJ bridge into the river, but was rescued and
20 taken home. Several months ago she be-
N came infatuated with q man and deserted
ne her husband and two children. Overcome
j. by remorse, she had made several attempts
tn to kill herself.
ePP Colonel b. +. Wheeler, recently chosen
to 10 command the First Regiment OF the
On Michigan State Militia, has announced the
* X. following staff appointments: Surgeon, o.
To- M. Woodward, of Tecumseh; Assistant
ne ne Surgeon, Thomas j. Sullivan, OF Ann
Of Arbor; Chaplain, George B. Stocking, oi
los Lansing; Adjutant, Robert Darnton, oi
9lOoi; Adrian; Quartermaster, John W. Barry o.
TO Jackson.
lit The excitement concerning the railroad
pni and that is proposed to be run betweon Ypsi
its lanti and Trenton via Belleville having
-, lain dormant for the past two or three years
the has at last been famed into action agali
rso by the extension of the Michigan Centra
nal, track to Cornwall's paper mill in Ypsilantl
zen This road, il constructed would be tn
ely main thoroughfare for Eastern-boun'
dis, lis freight during the winter season.
eit., em, The G.. A. r. has 800 nest eg
use toward a proposed soldiers monument
but be erected in Howell Cemetery. The $40
% nu- has nested alone in its little nest nearl
oiu- two wears now. The patriotic people G
vote vote Livingston County should see that SIC
in companions are regularly deposited in th
Mr. nest until sufficient sum for decor
'sti- monument to the memory of our departe
GER heroes has been secured. Some one sta
on1l oma the ball-Ho,ceU Republican.
TO. y OF Suit was commenced in the Circu
. of Couit at East Saginaw, by Anthony Hem
,nre ,int' against Alonzo 7. Ward, claiming dan
the ages in the sum Of $4,000. The declart
a "a in tion CHARGES Ward with alternating the o.
oDnr Dill fections Of Mrs. Henry from her HUSBAND
argo Henry is a harness maker by Occupation
'ne and late of the firm of Smith Il Henr
nent Ward is a private banker, and Superyis
, the in the Second Ward. Henry and his wi
ana have separated.
reed 1t is currently reported ut Graz
APP Rapids that the Lake Shore Halfway Cor
nrol Cl pany is negotiating for ihe purchase of Z
to an Valley Road, running from that city
. ewed ed jackson. The company evidently see Z
pub pub necessity of reaching out, in order to b'
atIvc ter hold, and to increase their traffic
fnoSs 6ous Grand Rapids. 1t would give them me
and direct line to Toledo. General Manae
I the Mulliken is in Grand Rapids, and he So
snste the new road from Lansing to Ora
whole Rapids will be built.
resse Louis T. N. Wilson died at Coldwa
eESd ctUsa recently. Mr.. Wilson moved to Coldwa
d for in 1885, when mere lad, and in Janua
y aucIs cns ls43, commenced the study of law W
Lieutenant Governor Coe. Ho was SO
admitted TO the bar, and proved higl
omes successful attorney. At the time of
mere death he was the oldest lawyer in Brar
anS m,s County, his practice covering period
, life forty three years. He was State Sena
q re- in 1854, and held various other Offices
n in different times. He was married Il
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